Breakfast Shenanigans
May. 14th, 2008 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird_ljI broke a plate this morning.
Unintentionally, I assure you. I didn't wake up in an insanely bad mood and start smashing all my household crockery (although some day I've gotta try that - it sounds like so much fun). This is all the result of not wanting to spill crumbs on my kitchen floor.
You see, I tend to air-dry dishes rather than using a teatowel. I just leave them sitting in a rack overnight, and in the morning they're all dry and I can put them away.
Eventually I'll put them away. But, I ask you, if you've got clean dishes in the cupboard and clean dishes in the rack next to the sink, and the toaster is right next to the sink, which dishes are you going to use? Would you put all the recently-dry dishes away and then take one out again? Or would you just do what I did, and grab one out of the dish-rack?
I had three plates in the drying rack: two dinner plates, and one small plate. And I was only having a muffin, so I grabbed the small plate.
It was at the back of the rack. The dinner plates were both at the front. And, unbeknownest to me, the weight of the little plate was the only thing keeping the rack balanced. As soon as I removed it, there was nothing to counteract the incredibly heavy dinner plates. So they tipped forwards, and upended the entire rack on my kitchen floor.
Elf freaked out, unsurprisingly.
And I have an obsession with eating toast (or muffins) while they're hot. So I grabbed the butter, poured out my orange juice, and calmly stood there eating breakfast and trying not to care about the broken bits of crockery still spinning around the floor...
You see, I tend to air-dry dishes rather than using a teatowel. I just leave them sitting in a rack overnight, and in the morning they're all dry and I can put them away.
Eventually I'll put them away. But, I ask you, if you've got clean dishes in the cupboard and clean dishes in the rack next to the sink, and the toaster is right next to the sink, which dishes are you going to use? Would you put all the recently-dry dishes away and then take one out again? Or would you just do what I did, and grab one out of the dish-rack?
I had three plates in the drying rack: two dinner plates, and one small plate. And I was only having a muffin, so I grabbed the small plate.
It was at the back of the rack. The dinner plates were both at the front. And, unbeknownest to me, the weight of the little plate was the only thing keeping the rack balanced. As soon as I removed it, there was nothing to counteract the incredibly heavy dinner plates. So they tipped forwards, and upended the entire rack on my kitchen floor.
Elf freaked out, unsurprisingly.
And I have an obsession with eating toast (or muffins) while they're hot. So I grabbed the butter, poured out my orange juice, and calmly stood there eating breakfast and trying not to care about the broken bits of crockery still spinning around the floor...
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Date: 2008-05-14 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-14 02:47 am (UTC)And everyone sort of expects you to panic (or at least get upset) and can't understand how on earth you can calmly finish doing what you were in the middle of, before you start cleaning up.
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Date: 2008-05-14 11:56 am (UTC)